The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 4

: aad parched soul and, one day, there came upon 1 this idea—‘‘If not: my baby, somebody’s.’’ nfother animal. reat ht make 4. In New York city are dozens of organiza- tions ‘wherein thousands of perfectly good babies are starving for genuine mother-love. Drat the psy- chology! A baby for Kidnapper Sophie Berg! Moral fo this story? Why, of course. If you can't find the hole in the fence, climb over. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE @atered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second z Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D.NANN - - Ae LOGAN EAYNE Oe ial Forel resentative. be NEW YORK, mith Ave. Bide; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.;} We move that the rules be suspended and that BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.;/every day be made ‘‘knockless’’ ‘day. MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. KEEPING CHEERFUL. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. By Edmund Vance Cooke. 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Europeans are the great sticklers for rank (Being Excerpts from His Farewell Address) —_|and title. If, indeed, it is a little matter, it will Interwoven a the love of liberty with liga-|take little to eure it. ment.of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is) ie | necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. | Richard Mansfield has joined the aviation corps. | Be American Only ‘If he inherited his father’s talent he should be al Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common coun-| wonder. We know of nobody who went up in the} try, that country has a right to concentrate your air the way his old man did. | affeetions. The name of AMERICAN, which be-| longs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt, the just pride of patriotism, more than any | _ Word comes from London-that the Russian sol- jdiers are trading machine guns for decks of ecards. | Mebby they're going to challenge Fritz to a game lof freezeout. —_—— | “*Exuberant ideal re something which have no} , more any | place in German polities. Herr Von Kuehlmann) appellation derived from local discriminations. With| makes this very clear in explaining the annoyanee| slight shades of difference, you have the same relig- which the presence of such ideals in the Ukrainian | ion, matiners, habits and political principles. You} republic have given the all-highest in his laudable ef- have. in common cause fought and triumphed to-/fort to plaster the world with a made-in-Germany gether; the independence and liberty you possess | peace. ag are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of | . ee eee common dangers, sufferings and successes. | With all the money which Unele Sam has had to # Support Your Government __|spend on air planes. it is to be sincerely hoped that | This government, the offspring of our own choice, | the boys over there will not be left much. longer at} uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full inves-| the mercy of the Boche airmen. If there’s one place; tigation and mature deliberation, completely free| where the American excels all other fighters it is in| in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, the air. Give the Sammies their chance to make} uniting security with energy, and containing within | good. They can’t do it without the proper weapons. | itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just | Rireaae rears Ae A OE a: | claim to-your confidence and your support. Respect} The optimism of Secretary of War Baker is highly for its authority, cempliance with its laws, acquil s-| gratifying, and all America trusts that it is based| cence in its measure, are duties enjoined by the fun-!on the’ best possible foundation. Our war depart-| damental maxims of true liberty. jment/ cannot safely reveal .all of its plans for the The very idea of the power and right of the peo- | Européan campaign. Secretary Baker, knowing that ple to establish government presupp the duty of | Americans have only his expressed opinion to go by, | every individual to obey the established govern-| must, we are sure, be caretul to convey no impres- ment. | sior which the situation does not justify. Beware of Political Obstructionists | Tis something to be grateful for when we find a seeking to justify itself in the eyes of the iving up to the prin- All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all | Aust combinations and associations, under whatever plau-| world by representing that it is sible character, with the real design. to. dirget, con- i ciples declared by President Wilson. trol, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and} Soh ee action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tend ency.’ They serve to organize faction, to give it an, WITH THE EDITORS. artificial and extraordinary foree: to put, in place|°™ of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a| THE GIRL THAT SOLD TWO PIECES OF RIBBON -(A Story for Girls That Work) party, often a small but artful and enterprising min- é A smiling girl at a ribbon counter listened pa- ority of the community. Warns Against Pro-Germanism | tiently and sympathetically while the customer tried Towards the preservation of your government,;to make up her mind which ribbon she would buy. it is requisite, not only that you steadily diseoun-|Two shades interested her. if tenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged “Which one shall I take?’’ asked the eustomer. authority, but also-that you resist with:care and | ‘I was never so undecided.”’ spirit any innovation upon its principles, however The young woman whose business it is to sell specious the pretexts. ‘ribbons replied :, ‘Either would suit your clear complexion, ma-} Germany is the land of the substitute. It doesn’t} dam, perfeetly.”’ offer the world real peace, but something the kaiser The customer replied: advertises as ‘‘just as good.”’ “Oh, then, I will take them both.” ee STORY ABOUT A MOTHER. That particular. young woman with smiles and/ “What fools we mortals be!’’ Sometimes, with/ tact will undoubtedly march to the head of her pro all our thought, experience and good purpose, we|fession—unless some sensible young man should cannot even put 2 and 2 together and make 4 out|come along and persuade her to accept a position of it. Sometimes, we scrape together money, organ-| that supersedes ribbon selling. ize, plan and build to solve a great problem, and y are blind to the simple, natural lessons which the| It is not fun to stand at a counter and sell goods. Lord has plainly placed before our eyes. These ob-/But it is an education in human nature, and a door servations ‘because there’s a Story About a Mother.) to succe: Down east, in the great Bellevue hospital’s psy-| There is no denying that women shopping are | | | i {out a railroad construction campaign ; | his dessert, and left it there; we, dis- ja curtain on a far diferent scene. eee Chesters Go Through — London Air Raids No Alarm and Little Excitement in Either Capital, Writes Novelist; and the Wonder Is That the Boches Keep Them Up By GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER™ (Copy Par wail, rising and falling in a most window. There was an instantaneous lul ight, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association) , Feb:222.—-Suddenly there sounded a. shrill, high-pitched unearthly shriek just outside the Lin'‘the vivacity. Three waiters went to the door, but the head waiter, rushing in before them, stepped: them and held !|hand; for this was ene of the most ithem motionless with an upraised decorous restaurants in Paris, and poise must be preserved though the heavens fall. There was a stained glass medallion just behind him, in the recoco door of birdseye maple. The -pink-cheeked and much med-; aled officer atthe table across the room, who had been in the act ol} pouring wine for’one of ‘the ladies of} nis party, held the decanter in mid-| air; the young English officer who} had been lighting a cigarette as he} told a story to a mighty pretty girl! let the match burn out in’ his fingers, | while the girl stopped in the very midst of a silvery laugh, with ‘a curi-} ous effect of an inaudible echo; the} American contractor who was laying! with matches, for the instruction of} the two French officers who were his; hosts, held a river in one hand and a mountain in the othér while he listen | cd; tne large, prosperous looking Srench gentleman ‘who was dining alone—a banker, if our judgment as) to the length of his whiskers was ac-) curate—had his spoon in the midst of cussing ways and means to make a! French oyster taste like an American one, had turned toward each other,} and continued to look each other fix-} edly in the eye. t IT WAS THE VOICE OF THE SI-; REN! ~ | Time was when the rise and fall of| that piercing whistle would bring back a favorite picture of a crack hook-and-ladder company racing to a fire, with horses dashing proudly down the mid- die of Fifth avenue,-and the traffic; spreading quickly to the curbs, and a} bléek and white cogpir dog, with bef FLARE ; mouth wide open, and -his eyes’ bul; ing, and his.ears flying straight back, ‘and his tail stiff as.a poker, running like mad ahead of the horses, barking with every lung in his body, and think- ing that he was responsidle for, the whole thing. Ries a" A siren will never thean merely that to us again. ab: é This time it was like the raising of In London. | We were in London. It was five o'clock in the morning, and we were asleep in one of the big Piccadilly hotels. I didn’t hear the siren. When I awoke, the big guns were) booming everywhere, BANG! ir accurate guess. “Kiddy!” “Yes,” came a quiet voice cut of the dense darkness. “Oh, you're awake. Well, here it is.” No” “Yet is it! It's the Zep3.” “Really!” A soft hand slipped over from tae next bed an met mine helf way. “What do we do?” i “T don't Fnow.” Silenc> for a momert, while we con- sidered that delicate question; that is, silence on cur part, thouga vutside the mighty fusilade increased, and a sharp, whizzing shriek in the air, fol- lowed by an explosion, told of a des- cending bomb near by. It was a curious sensation, that cf lying in a sung bed in the dark with! chopathic ward, they’ve got a little girlish woman | sometimes inconsiderate, hard to please and ungrate- named. Sophie Berg whose mind is ‘‘on the border-| ful for attention. | land.’’ Distinguished physicians are studying her; _ But the way to get AWAY from routine is to} and faithful nurses watching her, for she’s part, WORK HAR) AND INTELLIGENTLY AT THE; patient and part prisoner, and there’s hope of her| ROUTINE, while it lasts. | complete restoration, mentally. It is not any more exhausting to smile as you! Sophie had a husband and a baby. Both died. jsell goods than it is to frown. It is not any more| Qne can get a husband, most any time, but one’s; tiresome to be polite and tactful than it is to be| very own, angel baby—that’s different. snappy and indifferent. | Did you ever watch your little daughter love —— | her doll? It is that mother love she shows which} This newspaper would like to reveal to the soutig| makes and moves this world. Society, government, }men and women who work as clerks some short cut | armament, war, business, everything we undertake|to success, some easy way. But there is no cro ss | to-do, would finally be useles without it, and so it| cut, and there is no easy way—except honest work. | is something to be fostered and saved. | - Any young woman or young man employed as a When poor Sophie Berg put such humble flowers clerk can get quickly out of monotonous work, rise | as a poof woman may on her baby’s cold, motion-| up above the rank and file, and see daylight ahead, | less bosom, saw the undertaker turn in the screws SIMPLY BY TRYING TO PLEASE THOSE THAT! in: the tiny coffin and realized that it was forever, COME TO BUY, those upon whom the establishment | her brain refused to act straight. She haunted the| depends for success. parks and dogged.the steps of maids that were push- = | ing baby carriages. The laughter, the cooing, yea! The young saleswoman whom we have quoted even {the weeping of little ones was: music divine| might have said to the hesitating customer: to. her ears. Filling her heart, possessing her mind, ‘*T can’t stand here all day while you are mak- stirring her body was always that mother love which|ing up your mind about ribbons. Others have got may mean a Lincoln, or a Shakespeare, or some other|to be waited on. If you don’t know your own t one who uplifts the whole of mankind. Thou- mind, I’m sure I don’t,”’ ete., ete. sands of sweet, crowing, gurgling, happy babies were Instead, being a cheerful, good natured, INTEL- ‘always before her in the great city. She was alone| LIGENT girl, she smiled and told the customer that in a’boat, on a vast occan, with not a drop of water|either ribbon would suit HER perfectly. Among those that work hard in the stores—and especially among the young women—there are un- fortunately some that suffer from ill health, some nervousness. For these it is more difficult than for others to be cheerful and endure smilingly the vagar- jes of the shopping woman. It is too bad that this world is organized in such fashion that the tired woman must work and that the shopper with a dol- “Then she stole the baby of the Rosn ’ Kidnapper! Kidnapper! And the pales and the ‘Rosners came and took the cup of superlative joy ‘from her lips as she was drinking, and put her under “While ‘many other women are refusing mother- ‘hood or turning their babies ‘over: to hired help, ‘Sophie’s psychology does not seem to be just,regular.|lar must be allowed to show her bad temper. So, some of boa big sigur o New York ate study-| Nevertheless, that is how things ARE arranged. ing jer, an ation ying to scien-| And the elerk wants to eseape from drudgery: out.—' 4 bom» likely to pop in on one at any instant. “I was going back to sleep,” came he quiet voice out of the darkness “My first thought was that it migh: be the Zeppelins, but I wouldn’t be. lieve it. ‘We're so used to subway blasts at home, you know.” I laughed as I got out of bed. “It does sound natural,” 1 comment ed; “out I'm sure this is an air raid. Don’t. show a light.”- I threw on a robe and went to the door. The hal. was dimly illuminated: as usual, an} two young women with yobes over their night attire, hurried along the coridor an into thetr. room. They were giggling! * ~ - Bang, bang, bang bang, boom, door, doom! went the big guns; whizz went the bombs. I came inside and turne? ga tre lights; and was met with the aatural question: A Sg “What do we do ‘atout it? Any: thing?” “4 don't know,” I puzzled, listening to the echoes of an explosion’ which was louder and closer than apy ot the others. We looked ‘toward the windows longingly,. It was against lv la wto open curtains or shutters, ever: so much as @ crack. 7 “I think I'll ask the clerk about it,” I decided, and took up the phone. “Very vell, sir,” came a bored voicz over the wire. © ' “What does one doin the case o: an air raid?” I inquired. “We're stran- gers here.” cat ae “Ow yes, sir,” be drawled, in a tone which wag totally disinterested. “i was just about calling you, sir, to say that ,since you're on the top floor you might as well come down, if you like.” Indescribable Feeling. We looked at each other thoughtfal- three beautiful prancing | - us in our. own eyes nor hamper our ac- tions. And it did not. I am trying to be accurate tbout this, trying to set down -as correctly as possible the workings of a normal mind under un- usual conditions. “We'll dress, I suppose,” observed the quiet voice, and-the possessor of it was already lacing her shoes, __ “I think so,” I replied. I was mak- ing sure of passports and letters of credit and money, in case any thing should happen to the room while we should be gone. “We dressed completely, went into ‘he hall and rang for the elevator, but by the time it came, we. had afother idea: “Can you take us up on the roof?” “Not any more sir,” smiled the ele- vator man. “It's forbidden by the Police. But I can take you up where you can get a good view.” = So, in place of going down, we went up, and out of darkened windows tooked into the sky, where a dozen powerful searchlights crossed and re- ¢rossed right over our heads, against the brilliant moonlight. “There’s one of the beggars right above us,” remarked the ele- vator man, lowering his voice to a half whisper, almost as if there might be some danger that tthe “beggar above us” could hear. “The searchlights have been hunt- . ing for him for half an hour; ‘but he’s high up; two miles. or more.” THERE” cee A STREAKING y IGHT DOWN THROUGH THE SKY. a An incendiary bomb, and it blazed up where it hit, not over three blocks away. As if angered, the big guns on Lon- don Bridge, and the huge French 75s along the Thames, intreased their booming ‘with redoubled. fury. No chance to get the Boche at that height,. but they could keep him from coming close enough to make an accu- rate drop. : What trace_of apprehension there had been _in us had disappeared, though we were closer to the dangez' by being out.from under the piles of sandbags which protected the main root. m ‘And there seemed to be no fear in the elevator man. Tt was all unreal, unbelievable! Out there was the beautiful clear sky, with the moon shining brightly, and the stars beginning to pale in the first faint gray of the dawn. The searchlights, centering over us to find the “beggar just above,” seem- ed like a show of some sort: _It was monstrously past comprehen- sion that in this beautiful sky there hovered machines, guided by human malevolence, which were dropping bombs deliberately meant to deat death and destruction tous and ali about ‘us, to kill and maim women and children, and the ill and wounded in the hospitals! The view was foo limited out of those narrow windows and between the slits of buildings so we went downstairs. ularly perturbed, iy driven into war just as today the | i i | 1 WASHINGTON’ DRIVE ON GER BROUGHT GLORIOUS VICTORY IN. HOUR OF AMERICA’S DIRE PERIL THIS GERMAN | __ EDITOR'S NOTE: ,The Hess- ian troops defeated by Washing- ton at Trenton had been hired out to fight their ruler who waxed rich and powerful out of the sale of their lifeblood. They had been people of Hesse, now a part of Prussia, and other German peo- ples are forced into trenches to satisfy the power lust of their’rul- ers, the kaiser and his militaristic junkers.) It was on Christmas, 1776, that;Gen- eral George Washington began his drive against the Germans entrenched at Trenton, N. J. The password gave his men was: “VICTORY FOR DEATH,” For. many long and cold hungry weeks the Americans had been wait- ing- in Pennsylvania, where the frozen! ground was streaked with blood from their unshod feet, and where a.potato and a few kernels’ of corn often was all that stood between the American soldier and starvation. The Germans were enjoying them- selves at Trenton, secure in the be- lief that the half-starved, poorly drill- ed* Americans would not dare attack them, well armed, highly trafhed and vastly experienced in war. Colonel Rall did not disguise his contempt of the Americans. In Trenton it was! proudly boasted that the Germans| would wait and make a great drive on what was left of the Americans in the spring. Colonel Rall expected by that time Washington's troops would have been put out of fighting ‘shape by the rigors of winter and poor provision- ing. 4 : Then it was that Washington. plan- ned his Christmas offensive. By a fine bit of military’ strategy he had thinned out the line of the enemy, and he had the Germans alone in Trenton. That Christmas night Colonel Rall gave a merry party. Song and dance, pretty women and wine enlivened things. The privates took the cue from their officers and alt Trenton was a scene of revelry. ‘But it. was, different west of the Delaware, the Americahs were as- sembled, eachuman carrying a rifle, a that Washington peunds of ammunition. “With “Victory or Death!” in-every American heart they set out. . For: nine hours the little army, led by Washington himself, marched through the bitter,cold. ‘When they arrived at the. Delaware they found it almost frozen over. A wild storm of sleet. and hail made progress extremely slow and dangerous. But it was‘ for “Victory or Death!” and they kept 6n| Fishermen handled the oars, and -boat by boat the Americans went over. t| was four in the morning before the last of Washington’s soldiers had crossed. Two other expeditions fvil- ed to reach the river, but Washingion pushed - on alone. Wrapping their guns in blankets to protect them from the sleet, the Americans pushed on down his river and put a’ bridge across. it. ling with amusement at the excessive hilarity of the headwaiter, tasted his. dessert and found it good, and we put lemon on our flat, round oysters. There seemed nothing else in par- ticular to do. Nowhere in -particular, to go, for one place was as safe as another; and if anything were to happen it would and if not, not. No single diner left until he had finished, no one went to a window or a door. ‘Of course it had been a false Only a few people; and those mostly|.of the. air, far towards the border, from the top floor, were in the-big,| had heard a strange engine way over- dim lobby, and no one seemed partic-| head, and too far inside the line, so alarm. One of the alert French gendarmes he gave the alarm for the chase, and We asked if we were permitted to|a mistake in signals had treated the go outside. Ow, yes, we might. The authorities would rather wejof the fact city to a long obsolete thrill, in spite that the raiders are would not on account of the possible] scarcely likely ever again to reach langer of flying debris! but there was| Paris. : nothing, really, to prevent us. So we went. London at Night. Wonderfully mysterious, those Lon-|to circle aboye their precious Paris, jon streets at night; weirdly dark.| flashed their comforting lights as lamps, in|they whirred and dipped and tobog- dintitshing perspectives,| ganed in the limpid moonlit air. with the shaded” street The bugle’ sounded “all clear” in a short time after the warning, and the vigilant airmen, who never cease|_ tangled, casting downward their cones of lum-| BUT + THE. THRILL © HAD NO nous mist, and vague, shadowy fig-} DEPTH. ares flitting silently into and out of The world, with such tremendous che lighted circles; gaunt, dim cabs,|.things at‘stake, has long since ceas- with their drivers-swathed into shape-|ed to care about such trifles. ess lumps, formless, plodding carts ind wagons, silent an “Pobbies,” huddled early risers shu! ‘ling almost invistbly to. and fro on ¥ thousand missions of their own, and now, silent little. groups here and adhere, faces upturned. Nothing to see. , The airships were so high up as to be invisible; they were not even specks in the clear sky. Presently, .00, the booming of the big guns be- came more intermittent, and finally. ceased. The afr raid was over. Over and no great damage done! ee The siren sounded again in the streets of Paris, only a few seconds after that first warning, and the cur- tain slid slowly down on our London memory, as the lights were dimmed in our decorous French restaurant. The waiters came away from the door, smiling ‘and’ shrugging thei shoulders, and the head waiter low- ered his hand. ~ pee ay : He considered it his duty to laugh extravagantly for the reassurance: of his guests, and did so, though it was ontirely unnecessary. i ‘The French officer who was eater- family exchanged a smile em, “ang resuméd pour:ng the The incident only served to bring motionless! up ‘the everlasting purzle of: Why does the Boche do it! —- ‘His tremendously expensive raids have no military or strategic value, and it can only be that his clumsy mind that such’ people as the British and the French, who have proved their staunchness by a heroism which will be epic in future history, could be in a° field! ‘ We have not been among,the. Brit- ish so much, bat we were with them in the one’ visitation, and know ‘that there is nothing but bravery in them, and as for the French, whom we know much ‘better, “it: is.to laugh.” » Fear, as a basis of- action, seems to‘have gone out of the universe. © - At Jeast it ie not to be found in| for feaf is, individual, and ‘France, | the Frencl to him, no longer lives for himself. He is. but a part of a great, daunt- ;.nation which is proceeding stern- ly: toward. the accompljshment bf one clea? and fixed idea; for that id France is willing to endure again all the deprivation and the agony which she ‘has endured in the past, to fight bravely and to bravely suffer, to poyr out ‘and wit once faltering in blanket,’ three days’ fations and 401: The French banker, his eye twink-|’ | Then bids. bis friend Satan, . ; conceives the - absurd theory}. frightened by a goblin—a scarecrow |: “ # her treasure and her blood in an} ang officer lit a.fresh| unending stream, seithout,commplant AIDED AMERICA Every American can take off his hat to this Gérman—Baron Steub- mits = 3 ¥ was ‘at Valley Forge, when hington’s’ untrained troops were attackéd by hunger arid cold while waiting a chance to fight for their country’s freedom. Baron Steuben, who had been on the staff of Frederick the Great and who admittedly was one. of the ablest Prussian officers, offer- ed his services to Washington without pay’ or rank. Washington immediately: made the German warrior’ head drill- master, for American soldiers, and he did his work-well. Day after day, in all kinds of weather-and at all hours. Baron Steuben worked with the raw” American troops. Within three months Baron Steub- en-had made a: wondérful change: in the American soldiers at Val: ley Forge. The Prussian general said that the intelligence: of the rank and file of -the: American army was so superior to’ that ‘of European privates that he could accomplish more in. three months than with a year’s drilling of raw European troops. : ‘ x through the bitter winds and blinding sleet. tet > At dawn the Americans*were near | Trefiton, but the Germans didn't know it. They had gane-to bed late after théir-hight of merrymaking and-weré sound asleep when-their sentries came - flying back in to Trenton: with the news that’the American: drive was on. Knox and Hamilton’ wheeled: their cannon into position-and poured a heavy fire into the-ranks of the dazed Germans pouring-out to meet the Americans. Washington’s sharpshoot- ers stormed the hoiisés’ and. picked off | the officers from ‘windows, doors and - crevices.’ ‘Colonel Rall*felk; mortally ‘wounded, his regiment broke and fied. - Just one company of Germans escaped getting across the. bridge of Assan- pink creek before ‘Washington saw their route of escape‘and rhtew: his soldiers across-the path. The Germans, cdught: in a net, threw-their guns ‘upon . the ground, their officers raised their hats on ‘their swords ‘in tokén‘ of surrender, and Washingt ‘ forces ended ina victory for the Am- ericans.. ‘With’ over:a. thousand Ger- man ‘prisoners,'-cannon,’ horses, munitién7and: provisions, the Amert- cans again crossed the Delaware and returned to-camp.°» >: = “That victorious dive, coming as it ‘aid ‘at-one ofthe darkest-moments of American history, whén. soldiera, were... trungry, ‘half clothed-and tired; when ” many of the ‘people had given un hope for Amefican-‘indepentience, and when congress itself was lost-in bitter quar- : rels; ceniented the colonies more firm- ly and: pointed the’ way: to ultimate freedom. ~*~ = -- THE DEVIL'S WALK, % pickers While the Devil was walking For pleasure one morn; He met the Old Kaiser Looking sad and forlorn. He ‘gently approached him With a subject most vile: . Yet it pleased the Old Kaiser And caused him to smile. The Kaiser he smiled As.only beasts can, That have neither liking _ Or resemblance to man. The Devil then tells Of the deeds he had done How he had ruined a father, - A mother and ‘son. How many bright youths By his agents had fell And made them sure victims For his kingdom of hell, How his art to allure them From virtue and ‘truth Had ruined the sire, The saint and the youth. The Kaiser looked up. With a sarcastic grin; His every demeanor Reeking over with-in.’ He invites the ald Devil. To a quieter. retreat: “Dear sir,-have a seat.” . Then in praising the deeds The Devil had done, — He boasts of his many, Vile victories’ wot.” “ The Kaiser then speaks; * * » With a ‘dubious air |)‘ \ And triés to look wise: «; Like a judge at a fair. He tells of the battles His armies had won; ‘Of the vile, wicked deeds His agents had gone. , re ‘How children’ were matmed ' . By his wicked decree; Of the ships he had ¢unk an the merciless sea; And other;vile deeds, wh whee aerel torte: 5 > ich: would, shame..the wild. sav; Or the. werpenta of hell, ae “Stop! Your deeda’are’t fet” a Ren finn 0, vile! aw “You are a sure ‘Victthh *. In my'‘kingdom to dwell; I will be the Ring! You, the ue Thus saying, tl Arose: from 3 . back to his kingdom Makes a-hurvied retreat.’ . on’sdrivesgn. .the German ; i ” oe